TY - GEN
T1 - Dealing with ethical issues in MOOC design and delivery
T2 - 9th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2016
AU - Luo, Heng
AU - Millet, April
AU - Alley, Richard
AU - Zuo, Mingzhang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This case study provides a contextualized description of the various ethical issues faced by an instructional designer in the design and delivery of a MOOC. The defined characteristics of MOOCs in general (e.g., massive enrollment, open access, diverse student population) and the uniqueness of specific cases require a set of ethical decisions to be made for dealing with issues such as bias, fairness, copyright, and disruptions. Those decisions, along with their rationale and effects are elaborated and discussed in this study from the aspects of theoretical assumptions, pragmatic considerations, and empirical evidence. Based on the case study findings, this paper concludes with a list of informed advices and learned lessons to guide instructional designers and instructors to deal with similar ethical issues in future MOOCs.
AB - This case study provides a contextualized description of the various ethical issues faced by an instructional designer in the design and delivery of a MOOC. The defined characteristics of MOOCs in general (e.g., massive enrollment, open access, diverse student population) and the uniqueness of specific cases require a set of ethical decisions to be made for dealing with issues such as bias, fairness, copyright, and disruptions. Those decisions, along with their rationale and effects are elaborated and discussed in this study from the aspects of theoretical assumptions, pragmatic considerations, and empirical evidence. Based on the case study findings, this paper concludes with a list of informed advices and learned lessons to guide instructional designers and instructors to deal with similar ethical issues in future MOOCs.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979086882
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84979086882&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41165-1_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41165-1_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979086882
SN - 9783319411644
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 128
EP - 138
BT - Blended Learning
A2 - Shang, Junjie
A2 - Wang, Aihua
A2 - Kwan, Reggie
A2 - Kwok, Lam-for
A2 - Cheung, Simon K.S.
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 19 July 2016 through 21 July 2016
ER -